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John Caspar Wild
Painter and Printmaker of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

By John W. Reps

(St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, distributed by University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. xx. 164. Illustrations, catalog raisonne, bibliography, notes, index. $59.95.)

To open the wide pages of John W. Reps's John Caspar Wild: Painter and Printmaker of Nineteenth-Century Urban America is to become immersed in the trials and tribulations of an artist's survival in the early nineteenth century. Swiss-born John Caspar Wild (1804–1846), who arrived in America in 1832 to seek his fortune using his considerable talents as painter, lithographer, and print colorist, spent fourteen years moving from one emerging frontier metropolis to another.

The chronological narrative, complete with meticulously researched documentation and flawless color and monochromatic reproductions, follows Wild's industrious output from his various residencies in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and the Davenport, Iowa, region. A pragmatist, Wild favored the mass-producible medium of lithographic prints for the images of recognizable buildings and panoramic scenes that he marketed to residents of the cities of the expanding West.

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Reviews

John Caspar WildPainter and Printmaker of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

By John W. Reps

John Caspar Wild
Painter and Printmaker of Nineteenth-Century Urban America